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I have returned to Tumblr, this is where my dirk gently hyperfixation draws me to. Except this time, instead of taking the absolutely banger of a plot and making it a sanders sides au, I'm making it a dsmp au because I just care about some of the block men alot okay

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Every day I wake up and think about dirk gently

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I know everyone is probably pretty interested in who the other syndicate member (Harpocrates) is. We know that it's somebody who uses he/him pronouns as Phil and Techno used them while referring to the unknown member. That immediately rules out one of the big contenders in Puffy and also rules out Hannah (but it doesn't really make sense for it to be her anyways). Dream was in prison for the syndicate's formation so it's probably not him unless he figured out how to get through Sam's security which is pretty much impossible. We can rule out anyone connected to the egg as the syndicate seems pretty pro-omlette and we can rule out George cuz that man will probably never be a big part in the lore. We know Techno and Quackity have a very rocky relationship so it makes no sense for it to be him. It can't be Tubbo because the syndicate went to check out Snowchester and didn't have any knowledge of it. That also indicates that it's probably not Jack since Techno would probably have more info on Snowchester if that were the case. The very idea that it could be Tommy makes me laugh. Just no. Sam doesn't seem very likely since I can't imagine him wanting to get involved with the people who are Dream's allies and the man seems pretty busy (Also Techno didn't know about Tommy being dead which doesn't rule Sam out but he probably would have told Techno if they were close enough to be in a syndicate together and obviously Techno didn't know that Tommy was dead today). Ranboo just joined the syndicate so it isn't him. Fundy also isn't a strong competitor since he and Phil weren't on great terms the last time they spoke. I'm also not putting much faith into people who haven't been that involved in the Techno side of the lore that much either. This includes Punz, Purpled, Sapnap, Karl, Connor, etc.

Harpocrates is the god of secrets and Techno probably gave the secret member that name for the fact that they're, you know, secret. However, it should be noted that Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from an Egyptian god which is kinda interesting since Foolish is out partying with his big old desert temple. Ultimately though, I'm not so sure about Foolish being our secret member just because he was online the entire time the meeting was happening and I feel like that's kind of a weird move from a story telling standpoint.

So looking at the info that we currently have, I have an idea of who it could be.

Eret.

They recently released their character's morals on their alt Twitter which gives us a lot of insight to their character. Most notably that she has "grown increasingly indifferent to the throne" and that "neutrality has been very important to [him], however, ... [she] has lent their resources to those they saw to be the most morally just". As still acting royalty, it would make sense for Eret to want her involvement with an anarchy syndicate to remain a secret. We also know that Eret has a pretty good relationship with Philza (the nether road trip and Wilbur's failed ressurection) and is at least neutral with Techno. The use of exclusively he/him pronouns from Techno doesn't really disprove Eret since pretty much everyone on the server only uses he/him pronouns for him. Eret wouldn't know a lot about Snowchester since they haven't been on in quite a while which fits with the fact that Techno also doesn't know that much about Snowchester. Also, as noted above, Harpocrates is the god of secrets and silence. This kind of fits with Eret's character as his act of being a double agent (and keeping secrets) in the L'manburg war is one of the most memorable things she has done.

I will say though that I think it would be really funny if it was Charlie Slimecicle. (He did talk to Techno about how he's willing to try things besides government)

Tl;dr : I think our secret anarchy syndicate member is Eret because of their want to help everyone on the server. It would make sense that they want to stay secret since he technically is an acting ruler at the moment. (But like it would be so funny if it was Charlie Slimecicle tho)

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I’ve done it. It’s taken me far too long because I had other things to do but my Techno art is complete.

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Things that would have made me cry during Tommy's stream yesterday:

If Tommy had called for Wilbur when he realized he was trapped in the vault

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Some of ya’ll really out here convinced that the SBI family dynamic carries over to the dream SMP. Like we can all agree that Techno isn’t Phil’s son but ya’ll keep saying Philza Minecraft is a bad dad to Tommy. Like ya’ll really took a few lines some of the characters said months ago before Phil’s character was cemented in the story and then ignored everything that came later. Phil has stated in past livestreams that he doesn’t know the relationship between his and Tommy’s character and honestly I think he’s waiting for Tommy to define it. I’d also like to point out that Tommy has told Phil that he “raised himself”. While that could mean that he was neglected by Phil, he doesn’t mention Wilbur. If he and Wilbur really grew up together, Tommy would have said that he and Wilbur raised themselves (they’re too close for Wilbur to have straight up abandoned him for years). I think this is Tommy’s vague way of saying to the viewers that Phil isn’t his dad. Character Phil probably never met Tommy until he joined the SMP. Why should he care about this rando kid that Wilbur adopted and he’s never met? Mans just watched his son die from his own hand, he’s probably not that interested in getting a new one. 

However, I will say that if you actually do support bad dad Phil, no hate to you. Honestly, the all over the place family dynamic that the blonde bois aren’t addressing is a hot mess. I personally don’t put a lot of weight into the earlier streams where Phil is like “yes, my sons, my boys” because I don’t think that Phil knew where his character was gonna go at that time.

TL;DR : Philza Minecraft isn’t a bad dad to Tommy because he isn’t Tommy’s dad and you can fight me on that (no seriously, give me your thoughts. I like the character analysis and I like the minecraft man discourse. Be warned, I probably will reply tho) and if you don’t agree, that’s totally valid!

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Here's some Awesamdude art I made before he does his face reveal

I tried a more textured brush and idk if its better than the standard pen. What do y'all think?

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The shading process has begun. We love learning how to do like 500 new things because I decided to try and make serious art. Fingers crossed that the final product ends up looking good. So far I'm 46 layers deep.

Bam, take my 1/2 finished art, I have yet to shade but I think the flat colors looks pretty cool on their own tho.

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sky high but it’s about being gay

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Bam, take my 1/2 finished art, I have yet to shade but I think the flat colors looks pretty cool on their own tho.

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Me desperately trying to figure out why Ranboo wrote that the tnt looks familiar in his memory book when he wasn't present for any of the times that L'manburg blew up.

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ranboo is spitting facts about villain arcs on stream rn

“What do you do in real life when something terrible happens to you? you don’t go around burning things.”

“I don’t think it’s a realistic approach to solving a character’s past trauma”

“It has to slowly build up to a breaking point.”

“I don’t think villain arcs are a good way to portray how real people deal with certain things.”

“It doesn’t really portray it in a good light, you know?”

essentially, I love this kid and how much he thinks about the characterization of Minecraft block characters. and how hard he works to make sure that his character isn’t portraying mental issues in a negative light is *chef’s kiss*

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“not every character needs a corruption / villain arc when bad things happen to them” i speak into the microphone

the crowd boos

“he’s right, you know” says someone

i look for the owner of the voice.

its ranboo

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Guess who's back from the grave with art from new fandoms that might alienate my current followers bby.

Anyways, here's c!Ranboo from the dreamsmp.

I had way too much fun with gaussian blur during this lol.

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Hello good day Karl Jacobs is LGBT and if you disrespect him/erase him because he's aspec you will die to my hand

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he’s back god I love him

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Hey, if you see this, don’t metagame in chat. In any of the streams. Don’t bug a grieving Tubbo that Tommy is still alive. Don’t tell Tommy Tubbo thinks he’s dead. Stop. Metagaming.

Look, I know it’s really hard not to! But you don’t scream at the theater that there’s a murderer behind the character. You don’t, that’s just rude. So don’t go and spam the chat with this shit. I’m really tired of seeing all this. It’s gotta be really hard to keep up a character when your entire chat is screaming at you to break it.

Stop. Metagaming.